St. Peter's (Trinity) Union Church (Fort Loudon, PA)

Collection

Identifier: Church RG 783

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The St. Peter's (Trinity UCC) Union Church collection consists of 3 boxes containing: - Annual Reports, 1912 - Bulletins - Church Records: Baptisms 1843-1854; Baptisms 1899-1926; Deaths, 1843-1851; Deaths 1898-1927; Communicants, 1843-1854, 1897-1926; Membership, 1843-1854; Constitution, 1843; Pastors, 1894-1924. - Church Records (transcription): Baptisms, 1843-1891; Marriages, 1851-1886; Deaths, 1843-1888; Communicants, 1849-1859. Compiled by Gertrude R. Ward, 1999-2003 - History: General (some in trans. records); Anniversary Celebrations, 1994 - Committees: - Consistory: Minutes, 1852-1894 (found in trans. records); Minutes, 1894-1940. - Financial Records, 1887, 1911-1918, 1919-1920, 1921-1922, 1923-1926, 1927-1930, 1931-1932. - Financial Records, Forward Movement, 1920-1922. - History - Photographs - Auxiliary Organizations: Christian Endeavor, Girl's Missionary Guild, Ladies' Aid Society, Sunday School, Willing Workers, Women's Guild, Ladies' Mite Society, Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, Young Peoples' Society, Sunday School Attendance and Financial Records. NO TURNING BACK: THE MISSION & MEMORIES SCRAPBOOK OF TRINITY UNITED CHUCH OF CHRIST In Celebration of One Hundred Seventy Five Years of Ministry, edited by Rev. Barron P. Barley, 1994. HISTORY OF THE GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH IN LOUDON, FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, (draft) compiled by Gertrude R. Ward, 1999-2003

Dates

Creation: 1843 - 1894

Biographical / Historical

The Reformed congregation began in 1819 and together with Presbyterian and Lutheran congregations built a brick structure about 1820. Lutheran's built their own building in 1842 and, at the same time, the Presbyterians united with the Reformed congregation to form St. Peter's Reformed Church. Trinity UCC was formed in the 1960's after a merger of St. Peter's UCC and Trinity Lutheran. Pastors include: prior 1819 Jonathan Rahauser 1819-1819 John Jewett; Robert Kennedy 1819-1829 F. A. Scholl 1830-1834 Jacob Dieffenbacher 1834-1837 Jacob Moyer 1837-1842 John Rabaugh 1842-1845 Charles F. McCauley 1849-1850 William Philips 1849-1858 John Hassler 1858-1859 D. M. Giles 1859-1862 John Ault 1863-1865 R. P. Thomas 1865-1868 F. A. Gast 1868-1873 W. C. B. Schulenberger 1873-1891 John Hassler 1894-1897 Samuel Gill 1897-1903 C. Gumbert 1904-1906 C. P. Kehl 1906-1910 E. F. Faust 1910-1913 W. H. Landis 1913-1916 James B. Stonesifer 1917-1921 Gustav Teske 1921-1924 Adam Schellhase 1925-1929 E. W. Brindle 1930-1935 Edwin Laubach 1935-1942 Irwin Hendricks 1942-1946 Horace Lequear 1946-1951 Mark Michael 1952-1959 Ernest Brindle 1960-1960 Louis Hammon 1961-1961 Oscar Locke 1962-1965 Charles Wealand 1966-1973 E. Loy Garber ????-???? Barron P. Barley